Words Between Darkness and Light: Poems by Una Kobrin

How to map a soul's journey? Poetry can offer its readers a portal to aspects of their own souls not previously consciously realized. This author's soul journey is woven in poetry with the central theme of light and dark. Traveling through myriad vehicles of relationship: encounters with nature - the seasons, nearby creatures, intimacy with flowers and weeds, and the loving and harrowing relationships with kindred souls - these poems expose the tender and healing possibility of the inner work of redemption. A wider relationship with the world-at-large is met with deep contemplation and inquiry, all part of the author's vivid exploration.

An affectionate observer of the living world, the author brings surprising insights and opportunities for wonder, threaded throughout in touching and humorous accounts. The reader is also invited into the process of entering the often-avoided inner realm. Again and again, the inner sensing gets reflected in the outer landscape (literally as well as figuratively). This voyage brings us into a mystical viewing through a lens of beauty, sensuality, and insight.

Words Between Darkness and Light expands awareness of the soul/spirit presence in the seen and unseen surrounding us. From the first close encounter with the Beloved, to the next Awakening thanks to a dynamic moon, the psyche is evident. Spirit is present throughout in all its various expressions, frequently imbued with the Divine Feminine, often hidden by the liturgies and texts of Western Religion. This work provides a window into sacred rigor, particularly in the challenging relationship with one's mind. Meditative clarity opens into the vastness of The Greater Mind, from which we may newly behold the sentience permeating everything, from the small and ordinary dandelion to the expanse of the sky.

Of the Blue

Can our hearts be large enough oceans to hold

the love that comes from the sky?

Can we bear its serenity - flooding us with stillness

in its free embrace?

Can we envision all that has been extinguished, stirred

and newly lit up into luminous blue?

Can we, even if briefly, dwell in this in-between place -

where life dust mingles in its twilight of matter?

Can we imagine its boundless province to forever be in the

background as worlds spin and unravel their stories

again and again?

Can we fathom its azure veil of protection

shielding us from the unendurable face of God?